This, by any measure, is bracing stuff. Within the first five minutes, singer Amy Taylor has told us that the reason that she’s ‘Gacked on anger’ is because she’s ‘Sleeping on the floor, in a car, in a tent’. It’s exactly this kind of spit and sawdust energy that keeps this album afloat throughout its svelte duration. Knowingly short on melody and covered in sharp edges they may be, but Amyl And The Sniffers write good songs, and as an example of a band whose explosive energies are captured, rather than recorded, this is strong work.
Verdict: KKKK